I am, as I've said, merely ...

I am, as I\'ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
 Billy Joel

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
 Billy Joel
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
 Billy Joel
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
 Billy Joel
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
 Billy Joel
So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.
 Billy Joel